What makes my life work?

I made myself work out this morning. I didn't feel like it. I was tired,
after two short nights. But I made myself go, like many mornings, & left the gym feeling great, happy that I kept my promise to myself. The key to life: Making commitments and then keeping them no matter what.

My life works in direct proportion to the commitments I make and keep.
What commitment are you going to keep today, no matter what?

Oneness instead of Separation

What if there is no such thing as separation between you and me. What if we all belong to a collective consciousness? A collective Oneness, if you will. If that is true, then if I hurt you, I am hurting all of us. And if I get angry at you, I am damaging our collective oneness. How can I have enemies if I am one with them?

When a colleague does something that makes me sad or mad, I can choose to forgive him and work with him anyway, because I know that if I move him forward, I will be moving the collective oneness forward as fast as possible. If we are all one, then there is no room for anger, revenge, frustration, disappointment, sabotage. Because those things all damage our collective oneness.

It is only through love and cooperation and harmony and forgiveness that I can move our collective consciousness forward. Who are you having issues with because you are viewing them as separate from you? And what would your relationship with that person look like if you chose to view them as part of you, and treated them accordingly?

Does your past own your future?

From my good friend and LifeStream Basic, Advanced(IPI) and LeaderShape grad Taylor Camp, a young man who is so much wiser than his years:

“You can't let what happened affect what happens. You can’t play a hand based on how you lost the last one. You can't live life in fear of what happened yesterday, last week or last year. The past & future are only as interconnected as you let them be.”

Amen! In what ways you are letting the past interconnect (and mess up) your future?

Can I be great during a slump?

I am in a major slump. Not able to generate any enthusiasm. Feeling totally overwhelmed and like everything depends on everything else. So I am forcing myself to just take the next action, even though I don't feel like it. That is the definition of greatness: Doing what I said I would do, whether I feel like it or not. What commitment are you not keeping because you don't feel like it. Will you do it anyway?

Judging or Listening?

How can I hear what the other person is saying if I am consumed by thoughts of what is wrong with them or what they are saying? In order to hear him/her, I need to notice when I am judging them negatively, and shift away from those judgments and back to being hungry to hear what they have to say and see the value in it. Who are you judging instead of hearing?

Random acts change history

There are moments where someone decides to act, and that act changes the course of history, affecting millions. These decisions are made by ordinary people, not high officials. For example, a mutual friend introduced Steve Jobs to Steve Wozniak. They founded Apple Computer. If he didn't bother, Apple would not exist! So Apple exists because some random guy decided to act. What act are you not taking that might change the course of history?

Connecting with my teens

The best conversations I ever have with my teen and young adult children is on road trips. When can you next take your teenager on a fun road trip for some high impact connection time?